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In September 1914 he married Ethel May Wayman, née Newton (1885–1984), an English widow. The marriage proved happy and lifelong. Ethel's personality was in contrast with her husband's: he was shy and impractical; she was gregarious, decisive and well organised.
- Library of Congress
- P. G Wodehouse collection, 1906-1977
Sometime in September 1914, while he was living in the USA, P. G. Wodehouse married Ethel May Wayman, née Newton, an English widow with a daughter named Leonora. The marriage was childless; but Wodehouse legally adopted Leonora and was distraught when she died prematurely in 1844.
Apr 29, 2022 · October 6, 1984. Age 99. Death of Ethel May Wayman at Southampton Hospital. Southampton Hospital, Southampton, Suffolk County, New York, United States. Genealogy for Ethel May Wayman (Newton) (1885 - 1984) family tree on Geni, with over 230 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
- May 23, 1885
- Michael Lawrence Rhodes
- Kings Lynn, Norfolk, , England
Ethel May (née Newton, formerly Wayman), Lady Wodehouse. (1885-1984), Actress and dancer; former wife of Leonard Rowley; later wife of Sir P.G. Wodehouse. Sitter in 4 portraits. 2 Likes.
Nov 11, 2004 · He had a long, separate-bedrooms marriage to the former Ethel May Wayman, after a courtship so brief that he mistook her name to be Ethel Milton. A brief flirtation with a chorus girl was...
Mar 8, 2013 · Even Wodehouse’s 61-year marriage to Ethel Wayman, a twice-widowed former chorus girl (Malcolm Muggeridge called her a “mixture of Mistress Quickly and Florence Nightingale with a touch of Lady...
Ethel May (née Newton, formerly Wayman), Lady Wodehouse (1885-1984), Actress and dancer; former wife of Leonard Rowley; later wife of Sir P.G. Wodehouse. Sitter in 4 portraits. Sir Pelham Grenville ('P.G.') Wodehouse (1881-1975), Novelist. Sitter in 8 portraits. Artist. Unknown photographer, Photographer.